TexMessage: Cruz nixes mention of climate change in International Women’s Day resolution

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Good morning, TexMessagers! Do you think the word ‘climate’ should have been omitted? No joke.

Sen. Ted Cruz strikes again! This time, he asked for wording in a routine Senate resolution to be nixed because of one objectionable word: Climate.

The resolution commemorating International Women’s Day last month, had to be taken back and edited after Cruz took issue with climate in the phrase that, women in developing countries “are disproportionately affected by changes in climate because of their need to secure water, food and fuel for their livelihood,” according to New York Times columnist Gail Collins. Collins said the resolution was nearly identical to the previous year’s resolution.

A Cruz spokesman told the Times the freshman senator felt there was no need to mix a hot-button issue in an otherwise perfectly normal resolution.

“A provision expressing the Senate’s views on such a controversial topic as ‘climate change’ has no place in a supposedly noncontroversial resolution requiring consent of all 100 U.S. senators,” they said.

This isn’t the first time Cruz has made a fuss about a typically noncontroversial vote. Cruz voted against a Senate resolution supporting Multiple Sclerosis Awareness Week, citing a need for more time to fiddle with the language.

“Majority Leader Boehner states that he is against same sex marriage because that is the way he was raised. I heard Congressman Young say the same thing about the slur. I think it is time that people stopped using the excuse of that is how I was raised. As an adult you have a choice. So just be honest and say that is what I believe as an adult with the ability to have discernment and free will.”

Today:
? American University will hold an event titled “Mexico’s Future: In Search of a New Democratic Equilibrium.” at 6 p.m.

? Brookings Institution will hold a panel discussion titled “Negotiating with Iran: How Best to Reach Success” at 10 a.m.

? April 9 The Senate Energy and Commerce Committee has a hearing on the nomination for the Department of Energy.

? April 15 The Senate Judiciary Committee has a hearing on the targeted killing by drones

? April 16 The Senate Armed Services Committee has a hearing on Afghanistan

? April 16 Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation Subcommittee of House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee will hold a hearing on the proposed fiscal 2014 budget request for the U.S. Coast Guard and related marine transportation programs.

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